Chris, be careful,
Truncate will kill all 9 million records - everything. Truncate acts
vertically. Drop column has very different effect :) Records a safe, but one
column is gone. It acts horizontally. Use set unused, if waste space is not
an issue.
Just my $0.02
Vadim Gorbounov
Oracle DBA
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Use truncate instead of drop. Ruth
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> The database is Oracle8.1.7. I used the syntax:
> alter table foo drop column bar;
>
> Why it gives run out of RBS error? Is alter table a
> DDL? How does it use RBS?
>
> TIA
>
> Chris Harvest
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